Dr. Judith A. Cooper is currently Deputy Director of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders at the NIH. In addition, she serves as Director, Division of Scientific Programs, within NIDCD, and finally, she has programmatic responsibilities for the areas of language, language impairments, and language in deaf individuals. She received her B.F.A. at Southern Methodist University in 1971 with a major in Speech-Language Pathology, her M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology at Vanderbilt University in 1972, and her Ph.D. at the University of Washington in 1982 in Speech and Hearing Sciences. She joined the National Institutes of Health as a Health Scientist Administrator (HSA) within the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke in November, 1982. Dr. Cooper became an HSA within the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, upon its establishment in October, 1988; subsequently served as Deputy Director as well as acting director of the Division of Human Communication; Chief, Scientific Programs Branch; and has been in her current position since January, 2004.
Dr. Cooper's current responsibilities include overseeing and coordinating the activities of her division; advising within NIDCD and across the NIH regarding issues related to language and language disorders; participating in trans-NIH initiatives focused in language as well as autism; and, working with potential and funded researchers in language across the US and beyond, providing advice, direction, and encouragement related to research grant focus, development and preparation.
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